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Show in the Dintah Basin. Ue, with other Uncompaghres, lives and has allotmenta in the S«hiteriver Valley. He is begging for water, but no step yet has been taken looking to irrigation of that land. Chief f.'.cCook told me that for twelve years he had been informed each year that water would be put on hi3 land "pretty soon". "Pretty soon" "How long is 'pretty soon'?, he rather sapiently inquired. a Lor._t Time. \ T'Prstty soon' very long time. Land no good now. We want water- Then land good." I am giving herewith a br.'of outline of the trips which I took over the Uintah 3a3in. It may prove interestingtind informative, aa the actual trips vers to me. I arrived at Fort Duchesne, the Agency headquarters, on Friday avening, October 27, at 7:30. Saturday, the 28th ult., I spent at the Agency office with Superintendent Knoale going over the several questions which I had come to discuss with him and getting a general idea of the situation in tho Uintah Baain- . :'";•;'• ''/ I1'li n' Aft-»r lunohoon, Sunday, on saddle horseo, we rode from ''i ' ;,. Cor1. CJuol-.ean-. in a toutherly direction, the first »top boing a promontory about a _r_ils and a quarter south of the Agency. From thia point, we could overlook the large basin where the Uintah and the Duchesne Sivers converge. Going south from |